December 16, 2011 -
Invest in fearless journalism and a powerful voice for change in the South -- help us raise $7,000 by Wednesday 22nd for the Institute Investigative Fund!
December 9, 2011 -
The American Legislative Exchange Council, American Tradition Institute and the John Locke Foundation are preaching against wind energy and renewable mandates in presentations that play fast and loose with the facts.
December 8, 2011 -
At a major conference in North Carolina next March, the Art Pope-funded Civitas Institute has invited a lead speaker best known for pushing a constitutional amendment making it easier for states to secede from the U.S.A.
December 2, 2011 -
The North Carolina Association of Educators has called for shoppers to boycott stores owned by Raleigh multimillionaire and conservative operative Art Pope for his "anti-public education" policies.
November 29, 2011 -
FALL 2011 | A conservative think tank has filed a controversial Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the University of Virginia seeking emails and other documents related to former professor Michael Mann, a leading scholar of global warming. Facing South explores who the American Tradition Institute is and the implications of its actions.
November 22, 2011 -
As we get ready for the Thanksgiving holidays, we give thanks to you, our readers, and look back at a few of Facing South's biggest stories this fall.
November 15, 2011 -
The conservative advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers and Art Pope is launching a tour in battleground Florida featuring a Tea Party leader notorious for exaggerated claims about voter fraud.
November 9, 2011 -
Voters in Wake County, N.C. have shifted power on the local school board back to Democrats who support a student assignment policy that values diversity -- but it wasn't for a lack of spending on the conservative benefactor's part.
November 9, 2011 -
Both Democrats and Republicans can point to victories in key 2011 Southern contests; also, the mixed results in Mississippi ballot initiatives.
November 8, 2011 -
With 2012 looming, Southerners will take to the polls across the region to decide key legislative races, as well as a nationally-watched ballot initiative in Mississippi.
